Choosing how your participants record where their data comes from is one of the most important design choices you’ll make when building a project and datasheet on CitSci.org. That’s why we give you, the project leaders, flexible tools for defining, assigning, and managing sites — whether you’re working with fixed monitoring stations, participant-created sites, or
Thank you again for joining us for this quick guide series! Part one covered research questions and big picture planning. Part two covered design, data collection, and volunteer management. Part three (this post) covers results and follow-up. Once you’ve collected some data, you may ask yourself: is this result meaningful? Is it meaningful enough to
Thanks for reading our quick guide series! Part one covered research questions and big picture planning. Part two (this post) covers design, data collection, and volunteer management. Part three covers results and follow-up. Ready to start your project? Have your research questions ready? Now it’s time to think about whether you need a hypothesis. A
Welcome to our “Quick Guide” series, which should equip you with all the knowledge and tools that you need to start and manage a citizen science project! Part one (this post) covers research questions and big picture planning. Part two covers design, data collection, and volunteer management. Part three covers results and follow-up. Citizen science
Welcome to the “Citizen Science for Educators” blog! It’s a long post, meant to be a comprehensive introduction to citizen science for educators (K-12, informal/nonformal, university, and more) of all types. The table of contents, below, can help you navigate to the part of the post that you need. Background/Inspiration I’m Caroline, the communications lead
📍 This blog post is an adapted excerpt from the longer blog post entitled “Setting Up Your First Project & Datasheet”, which walks you through the first few steps of launching a project on CitSci. In this blog post, we’re just focusing on how to set up location tracking in your datasheet. When you’re designing
Thinking about launching a citizen science project? Whether you’re mapping urban wildlife, collecting community stories, or tracking environmental change, CitSci gives you the tools to make it happen. This guide will walk you through setting up your project, designing your datasheet, and making smart choices about privacy and participation—no tech background needed. Table of Contents:
Hello, project leaders! We’re so grateful you’ve chosen CitSci as the place to engage volunteers with your important work. If you haven’t in a while, this might be a good time to log back into CitSci.org and navigate over to your profile and the projects you manage. We have some new features to share with
We’re reaching out with an important update for participants who recently submitted observations to certain projects via CitSci’s app or website. Some users experienced an “Internal Server Error” while submitting observations, meaning they weren’t able to submit observations with images. You are welcome to edit those observations to add images, now that we have fixed
What are CitSci Forums? All projects created in CitSci have a Forum tab. The Forum tab was designed as a threaded, structured discussion tool that participants and project managers can use to communicate about their project within the CitSci platform. You can use your project forum to ask questions, post cool photos, generate discussion and
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